Urgent symptoms

Topics to discuss

• Uncontrolled bleeding or fainting needs emergency care
• Seek urgent assessment for fever with rapidly spreading redness after skin treatment
• Arrange prompt evaluation for a changing, bleeding, or nonhealing growth

Choosing the next step

Use the warning signs above to decide when emergency help is needed. This page cannot check your symptoms or tell you that it is safe to wait. If symptoms are severe, sudden, or getting worse quickly, seek urgent medical help. A routine appointment request is not an emergency service, and a message may not be read right away.

For a life-threatening emergency, call 911. Do not drive yourself if you feel faint, confused, or unable to travel safely. If possible, have someone stay with you while help arrives. Bring your medicine list and allergy information if they are easy to reach, but do not delay emergency care to collect records.

Sources

• Warts: Diagnosis and treatment — American Academy of Dermatology
• Skin tags: Why they develop, and how to remove them — American Academy of Dermatology
• FDA Drug Topics: Fraudulent Drugs — skin lesion products — U.S. Food and Drug Administration